NME announces Mac DeMarco at Field Day Festival
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Mac DeMarco has been added to the line-up for Field Day in June.
Mac DeMarco has been added to the line-up for Field Day in June.
Mac DeMarco will head out on a world tour that will cover Asia, Australia, North American and Europe and make stops at Coachella and Bonnaroo. It starts today in Tokyo.
Retail value for a pair of Vans Authentic sneakers is $55. Canadian rocker Mac DeMarco’s tattered, road-worn set are worth roughly 200 times that amount. The singer is auctioning his self-described “sexy shoes” on eBay for charity. In less than 24 hours, over 140 bids had sent the price skyrocketing well past $11,000.
With only two albums to his name, he’s already refined his signature guitar tone to a sound that is clean, lyrical, lush and gentle. DeMarco has matured quickly, and he doesn’t seem to care.
With only two albums to his name, he’s already refined his signature guitar tone to a sound that is clean, lyrical, lush and gentle. DeMarco has matured quickly, and he doesn’t seem to care.
Mac DeMarco’s woozy Salad Days is just the latest reason everyone should be listening to the charismatic Canadian. With Salad Days he has perfected his slacker-rock song crafting and we’ve got to know more of his sweetheart persona, making him pretty much irresistible.
Ah, year-end lists. A time for reflection, competition and some good old fashioned favoritism.
Pepperoni Playboy is a psychedelic 34-minute doc that follows indie wildman Mac DeMarco as he hams it up on tour in China, shows off his home studio, and generally takes part in hijinks of all sorts.
Salad Days wraps itself in warm shades of jangly psych pop that counterbalance the weight of DeMarco’s words, and he milks that quirky juxtaposition to great effect.
As his second full-length album, Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days brings the same nonchalance and chill vibes as his previous album, 2, but with added maturity and insightful lyrics on tracks like, “Passing Out Pieces” and “Go Easy.”
The 24-year-old Canadian singer-guitarist’s second album – a warm, polished set of sun-drenched folk-rock jams – feels like it could have been a lost used-vinyl-bin treasure from the Seventies. DeMarco channels Harry Nilsson, the Beach Boys, Steely Dan and the Beatles, but the offbeat stoner vibes are all him.
Riding high on the crest of 2012’s breakout album 2, Salad Days saw the slacker surf formula fleshed out with woozy synths, while lyrical refrains often sat at odds with the optimistic guitar jangles underpinning them, at turns self-reflective and emotionally bereft.
Mac DeMarco made a quick appearance on Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show earlier this week. Everything starts off normally enough with DeMarco playing 2 track “Still Together,” but things take a weird turn when the host stops everything and announces that it’s time to “Attack DeMarco” and a bunch of samurai come out to hit the singer with sticks and try to choke him.
This Polaris Prize-nominated record largely continues the breezy and easy vibe of 2012’s 2, but with a touch more sophistication and nuance, yielding some of his best songs yet, including the gorgeously grooving “Brother.” DeMarco shows off an impressive evolution here, but without shedding any of his previous releases’ scruffy charm. Salad Days goes down easier than an ice-cold PBR.
Standout track: “Passing Out Pieces”
You can never be fully prepared for an interview with Mac DeMarco, the gap-toothed, camo-overall-wearing Canadian teen indie-heartthrob loverboy.
On Tuesday night at the Fillmore, Mac unveiled his spectrum of tricks to a sold-out crowd that ping-ponged his feisty energy.
It’s not many musicians who can make you dance with energy while taking you to laid-back summer days of listening to him through speakers in a friend’s backyard.
Tickets to Mac DeMarco‘s Laneway Festival 2015 sideshows have already begun to fly out the door, with his first Melbourne show already sold out. Victorian fans needn’t worry though, as DeMarco has just announced a second sideshow in the city.
DeMarco, the consummate performer, hits the iconic SF venue tonight with LA psych rocker Chris Cohen.
Combining VU riffs, acid-washed AM ’70s rock and a touch of The dB’s pop, his plaintive lyrics are at odds with his ‘Dude, Where’s My Career?’ persona. Could DeMarco be Paul Westerberg and Bob Stinson at the same time?